There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.